Concept
William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker
Overview
William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, FRS (c. 1620 – 5 April 1684) was an Anglo-Irish peer and mathematician who served as the president of the Royal Society from 1662 to 1677. Best known for introducing Brouncker's formula, he also worked as a civil servant, serving as a commissioner in the Royal Navy. Brouncker was a friend and colleague of Samuel Pepys, and features prominently in the Pepys' diary.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Possible passages
Found by search and not yet checked by a person; they may only mention the idea in passing.
The Vice-Admiral was reconciled to his son, and though of a different persuasion, embraced him tenderly. William made a fruitless exhortation to his father not to receive the sacrament, but to die a Quaker, and the good old man entreated his son William to wear buttons on his sleeves, and a crape hatband in his beaver, but all to no purpose.
Voltaire, Letters on England
Close in meaning to William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker; the term itself is not named.
Such has been the fate of the arts, to make their progress slowly round the globe. He took with him two young students from a mathematical school,[46] and this was the beginning of the marine academy, founded afterwards by Peter the Great. He observed and calculated eclipses with Ferguson.
Voltaire, The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia
Close in meaning to William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker; the term itself is not named.
XLI. _A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of_ Macclesfield, _President, the_ Council, _and_ Fellows, _of the_ Royal Society, _concerning the Variation of the Magnetic Needle; with a Sett of Tables annexed, which exhibit the Result of upwards of Fifty Thousand Observations, in Six periodic Reviews, from the year 1700 to the year 1756, both inclusive; and are adapted to every Five Degrees of Latitude and…
Various, Philosophical transactions, Vol. L. Part I. For the year 1757.
Close in meaning to William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker
Related ideas
Place in the tradition
Part of British philosophy.
Explore William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker in the interactive graph →